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A new map of the cosmos shows the distribution of mysterious dark matter in sharp detail. The map, which covers a quarter of the sky over Earth and extends deep into the cosmos, was created using a ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has combined 100+ infrared maps into the universe’s first all-sky cosmic atlas, revealing galaxies, interstellar clouds, and cosmic inflation patterns never seen before.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But a smattering of the ...

Scientists have made a huge leap forward in astronomy by making the biggest map of the universe ever, which shows about 800,000 galaxies. The COSMOS-Web project made this amazing cosmic map, which ...

An enormous map of the universe and how it's changed over time has been made by scientists, and may change how we think about the cosmos and its expansion. This map, made using data gathered by the ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over dark energy and why it's pushing our universe apart. New data from the largest 3-D map of our universe suggests we may be wrong about dark energy. Dark ...

In standard methods for analyzing cosmic maps, galaxies are grouped into pairs or triplets for calculations, which compresses information. In the new method, studied by the University of Michigan and ...